On 3/1/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/1/07, Rob Smith nobs03@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/28/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
The aim was to get rid of the word "verifiability." This was causing confusion for new editors because they thought it meant they had to check that material was true, which is what "verify" usually means, rather than simply checking that it had been published elsewhere.
Sarah
Hmm. The Latin root of verify means "true"; amazing the policy read "verifiable, not true". Like in the English language, just what the
hell
did that ever mean, anyway?
I think the meaning of "verifiable" is "can be verified", i.e. "can be shown to be true by referring to a secondary source". For me, there was never a problem about what "verifiability" meant...but then, I can see the rationale for the change. There's still potential for confusion.
Johnleemk
I always understood it to mean give equal weight to the lie if ( a ) were
deliberately engaged in intellectual dishonesty, or ( b ) too lazy to investigate or just in the habit of sloppy research methods.